Hongkong.
Q 94
to be carried. Work was begun in July and was well advanced by the close of the year. It comprised the construction of 780 feet of lime and cement concrete channel, discharging into a cement concrete tank (capacity 4,000 gallons), the overflow from which was carried down the hillside by 1,300 feet of cement concrete channel. The quarters and station are served direct from the tank by wrought iron pipes, a plentiful supply of water being obtained.
The construction of a tennis court for the use of the staff employed at the station was also undertaken. The court is laid with cement concrete and is enclosed with wire netting supported on T-iron posts. This work was completed by the close of the year.
Sundry works, including the enclosing of the quarters with mosquito-proof wire gauze, were carried out by the Naval Authorities at a cost of $3,360.73, which was defrayed by the Colonial Government. A small account, amounting to $131.55, for repairs to roofs executed by the Naval Authorities, was also paid by the Colonial Government.
1917 Estimates,
1917 Expenditure, ...$8,300.18
145. Dredging off Kowloon Point.-The only expenditure was a trivial amount brought forward from 1916. The total expenditure amounted to $42,096.40 (vide paragraph 107 of last year's Report).
1917 Estimates,
1917 Expenditure,...$26.62.
146. Repairing and relaying the Telephone Cable across the Harbour damaged by s.s. “Mau Sang”.—The length of new cable required to replace the damaged portion of the cable which was laid across the harbour last year (vide paragraph 136 of last year's Report) was received and laid and communication was established by it.
1917 Estimates,
1917 Expenditure,...$1,393.50.
147. Apparatus for Government Quarry.-In order to deliver asphalt from the quarry at a sufficiently high temperature to enable it to be successfully laid on the various roads in the City, it was found necessary to erect a heating hopper with a capacity equal to that of the steam lorry. The hopper receives the heated asphalt as it comes from the mixer and stores it, without losing heat, until a sufficient quantity has been received to make a full lorry-load, the time for preparing such quantity synchronizing with the time occupied by the lorry in taking a load to the centre of the City and returning. The hopper is capable of delivering the full load into the lorry in less than 5 minutes.
1917 Estimates,
1917 Expenditure,...$2,648.17.
Hongkong.
Q 94
to be carried. Work was begun in July and was well advanced by the close of the year. It comprised the construction of 780 feet of lime and cement concrete channel, discharging into a cement concrete tank (capacity 4,000 gallons), the overflow from which was carried down the hillside by 1,300 feet of cement concrete channel. The quarters and station are served direct from the tank by wrought iron pipes, a plentiful supply of water being obtained.
The construction of a tennis court for the use of the staff ployed at the station was also undertaken. The court is laid with cement concrete and is enclosed with wire netting supported on T-iron posts. This work was completed by the close of the
year.
Sundry works, including the enclosing of the quarters with mosquito-proof wire ganze, were carried out by the Naval Authori ties at a cost of $3,360.73, which was defrayed by the Colonial Government. A small account, amounting to $131.55, for repairs to roofs; executed by the Naval Authorities, was also paid by the Colonial Government.
1917 Estimates,
1917 Expenditure, ...$8,300.18
145. Dredging off Kowloon Point.-The only expenditure was a trivial amount brought forward from 1916. The total expendi- ture amounted to $42,096.40 (vide paragraph 107 of last year's Report).
1917 Estimates,
1917 Expenditure,...$26.62.
146. Repairing and relaying the Telephone Cable across the Harbour damaged by s.s. “Mau Sang”.—The length of new cable required to replace the damaged portion of the cable which was laid across the harbour last year (vide paragraph 136 of last year's Report) was received and laid and cominunication was established by it.
1917 Estimates,
1917 Expenditure,...$1,393.50.
147. Apparatus for Government Quarry.-In order to deliver asphalte from the quarry at a sufficiently high temperature to en- able it to be successfully laid on the various roads in the City, it was found necessary to erect a heating hopper with a capacity equal to that of the steam lorry. The hopper receives the heated asphalte as it comes from the mixer and stores it, without losing heat, until a sufficient quantity has been received to make a full lorry-load, the time for preparing such quantity synchronizing with the time occupied by the lorry in taking a load to the centre of the City and returning. The hopper is capable of delivering the full load into the lorry in less than 5 minutes.
1917 Estimates,
1917 Expenditure,...$2,648.17.
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